Shaikh Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak, popularly known by his pen-name, Faizi (20 September 1547–15 October 1595) was a yemenite Arab poet and scholar of late medieval India. In 1588, he became the Malik-ush-Shu'ara (poet laureate) of Akbar's Court. He was the elder brother of Akbar's historian Abul Fazl. Akbar highly recognised the genius in him and appointed him tutor for his sons and gave place to him amHe composed significant poetic works in Persian and is ascribed by Bada'uni and his other contemporaries to have composed over a hundred poetic works, but all the titles are not known to us. His Divan (collection of poems),

Works

 !) Nal o Daman

A collection of five poetic works based in imitation of the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi's Panj Ganj (literally five treasures) or Khamsa

These works include

i) Markaz ul-Advar (The Centre of the Circle)

ii) Sulaiman o Bilqis (Solomon and Balkis – the queen of Sheba)

iii) Haft Kishvar (The Seven Zones of the Earth)

iv) Akbarnama (The History of Akbar)

v) Nal o Daman (a Persian imitation of the famous Indian epic Nala and Damayanti)

II) Sawatih-ul Ilham

An Arabic exegesis of the Quran without using any dotted letter 

III) Mawarid al-Kalam

An arabic treatise written without using any of dotted letter

IV) Persian translation of Bhaskaracharya's celebrated Sanskrit work on mathematics, Lilavati

V) Tabashir al-Subh

 His Divan (collection of poems) which comprisesof  qasidas, ghazals, ruba'is and elegies.The exaltation of pantheism in some of his lyrics brought on him the enmity of the orthodox Muslim clergy.

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